All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1065893 (stock #G0354)
A beautiful early 19th C. Chinese Nanking blue porcelain food warmer. In excellent contition only with a normal firing glaze loss. D:27cm H:7cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1325166
This is tsutsugaki & handwriting fireman's cotton coat sashiko hanten coat of a splendid firefighter of the late Tokugawa period of the Edo era(1800-1867). A fight of kawanakajima is a design. It is a very high technique. A samurai (takeda shingen and uesugi kenshin) and a horse are drawn and are also the uplifting feeling and the excitement which seem to begin to move shortly. And there is sashiko stitch on the entire surface by hand. As for it, length is longish with 92cm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1460948 (stock #4648)
Decorated with a carp diving in waterweed executed in typically thick and strongly hued enamels. The back similarly decorated with oysters and weed, the centre with a large Kutani mark.

The Yoshidaya kiln was a short-lived venture, situated in Yamashiro, intended to revive earlier Kutani-style wares. The founding investor was Toyota Denuemon IV (aka Sekio, lived 1751-1827), a businessman who used the professional name Yoshidaya...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #914375 (stock #G0103)
A beautiful early Qing dynasty sapphire blue glazed small vase, very elegant sapphire blue. In excellent condition, except there is a firing glaze shrinking on the bottle (pls. see photo). H:6".
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre 1837 VR item #1079979 (stock #0615)
Yixing zisha teapot from Tek Sing shipwreck.with incised hand writing at the base.Qing period.8,5cm body diameter.13 cm wide.8cm high.teapot in good condition with just one fine hair line.Free from any restorations
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1297313
This is Nobori-Paper used in a house in the Edo era. The pattern of this Nobori-Paper is Shoki. Shoki is an old Chinese soldier. This is made with paper. The rim of this Nobori-Paper is protected in hemp thread. This is hardly left now. Most of left flags are textiles. This has many stains, damage, but there is value for a document very much. Size 223cmx 116cm (87.7 g x 45.6 g))
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Pre 1837 VR item #1477171 (stock #3206)
A magnificent pair of French Empire Ormolu gilt bronze figurine candlesticks circa 1810. Each finely detailed and measuring about 12.5” in height each and the base about 5.5 inches in width.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1264511 (stock #582)
A pair of perfectly potted porcelain bowls, decorated in iron - red, with plump feathery tailed godfish swimming amongst wafes in sgraffiato technique. Underglaze Daoguang Marks ( 1821 - 1850 ).Diameter : 10,6 cm. H : 5,8 cm. Condition : Perfect. Provenance : Old Suisse collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1837 VR item #1470237 (stock #348)
Finely carved Japanese Netsuke Depicting a Kappa laying on top of a Shell. According to Karl Schwartz, in his book 'Netsuke Subjects', Kappa is a Goblin who lived in rivers, having a body resembling a frog with a carapace like a turtle. Its head is similar to that of a Monkey with a cavity on top which must always be filled with water. It is mischievous and is often in love with young girls...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1837 VR item #1377430 (stock #1-1088)
Finely cast five-point vajra (or dorje), made of bronze, with nice dark green patina. Tibet, early 19th century. Length: 12.4 cm. Very good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Middle Eastern : Metalwork : Pre 1837 VR item #817094 (stock #ZMisc124)
This lovely antique Indo Persian box is covered with silver and bronze elaborate damascene work on the top and 4 sides. The box lid is slightly domed and the inside is lined with wood. Made in what was Persia, now Bidar India, this box dates to the early part of the 19th century, and is an fine example of Damascene metal work. In excellent condition, the box is 6.5 inches x 3.5 inches x 2 inches high...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1408884
This is a Japanese antique edo era silk tsutsugaki natural indigo dye yuzendye fukusa textile of (iseebi)Lobster and wave pattern. Ise Lobster was drawn very precisely. It is a tsutsugaki dye and Yuzen dyeing of hand-drawn dyeing There is a slight pale discoloration. There is a small hole in the lining safflower-dyed silk. They are not disturbing, and as a whole it is in very good condition. Size:Length:47.5cm / 18.7inch Width:: 47.5cm / 18.7inch
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR item #1448075 (stock #2018-546)
Circular kobako in gold lacquer, decorated with cranes and pines on a nashiji background. The interior is in nashiji lacquer. On the lid, we can see the mon of the Tsugaru family (津軽).
This family is a samurai clan from the province of Mutsu, in the north of Japan. It was originally a branch of the Nambu clan, which became free during the Azuchi Momoyama period (1573-1603)...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Glass : Pre 1837 VR item #1479425 (stock #1-1354)
Statue, made of glass, representing Buddha Sakyamuni_ sitting cross-legged on an elevated lotus throne, his head backed by an aureola, holding a scroll (symbolizing the Buddhist Book of The Law) in his right hand. China, early 19th century. Height: 15.2 cm. Accident at shoulder level (restored), otherwise good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : French : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1424396 (stock #TBD00325)
A hard paste porcelain cup and saucer with gilding of lyres with arrows supporting swags. Two panels on the saucer and one on the cup displaying in differently toned gilding elaborate outdoor scenes with people, buildings, trees and other details. The partially gilt handle scrolls to the top edge. Two-tone leaves ring the lower part of the cup. There are no marks on either the cup or saucer. Inscribed in the body of the saucer inside the fool is what appears to be “n6” in a bold hand...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1193228 (stock #jiaqingdish)
A beautiful famille rose dish decorated with flowers and Chinese characters. Jiaqing six characters mark and of the period (1796-1821). Condition: there is a 7/8" fade double hair line on the back (photo #4) and an approximate 2 inches edge touching(photo #5), no other flaw other than these. Diameter: 7-1/4"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1248367 (stock #560)
The reason why this bowl is so rare is the fact, that nearly all bowls of this kind of Medallion bowls are " Doucai " bowls on that the underglaze Cobalt - blue outlines of the decoration are filled with overglaze enamels. Sometimes there are also to find such bowls that do show the underglaze blue outlines only, which are for whatever reason still not filled with overglaze enamels. The decoration of such pieces somehow give an " incomplete impression"...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Paintings : Pre 1837 VR item #1221938
A refined Chinese fan painting of a literati scholar enjoying the breeze within the pine grove from the window. The writing expresses the view of the fan painting where the scholar is listening to the wind among the bamboo groves in the evening, signed "Ke Mou"?. Title "Listening to the Scholartree". Age: Qing Dynasty 18th/19th century. Size: Length 22" Width 10.2"